Micah Beasley

“I tried not to think of all the things I had imagined we would do together — return to our lake next summer, move in together someday.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“She will write and write. She will finish this book, then write another. She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours